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New Member
Norway
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Hi everyone, I have a beautiful 1888 $10 Liberty coin, with extremely nice details (look at the claws of the Eagle or the arrows for example), which in most if not ALL MS63 coins I have seen are in much worse state. I have checked out some auctions where AU58 coins looked much better than the highest grade for this coin (being MS63). Now my question to you is: Do you think the following coin is MS or AU?   Thanks in advance! PS: I'll send it to NGC/PCGS soon, so I will find out about it in a couple of weeks, but I am just curious about your thoughts :) *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***Edited by Willem2904
05/20/2015 2:26 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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AU coins normally have dull luster. Yours appears to have nice luster so I would say it's an MS coin.
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New Member
 Norway
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Here are 2 more pictures, taken from a slightly different angle.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10982 Posts |
Your coin has the look of a slider that is likely an honest AU55 or 58 and as such would need strong luster to go with its good strike to "market-grade" as MS. The obverse fields seem to have impaired luster - now how impaired they really are can't be determined by the images. I've seen similar pieces grade 62, that's for sure.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
675 Posts |
Hard to tell if there is *hint* of wear or not. I would say AU-58.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm horrible with these, but imo, I see some luster, and will throw an MS60 in the ring.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1584 Posts |
I'd call it low MS. Nice.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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MS61 or MS62 seems about right, let us know how the coin des after PCGS looks it over.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Very close to MS, but not quite IMO. AU-58.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
946 Posts |
Perfect slab for a ms60 imo
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New Member
Norway
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Thanks for your input everyone. I will share the result in a couple of weeks. The reason of my confusion is the following series of pictures. It looks like the AU58 has brighter luster than the MS60 and MS62 AU58  MS60  MS61  MS62  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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While it has a tad bit more luster. All those marks and gouges take it down to the Au level it has been graded. Where abouts the higher graded one shows less luster,but still retains a lot of details without all those baggy marks and gouges everywhere. Your coin is a perfect candidate for a 60+slab.
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New Member
Norway
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Thanks all for your thoughts.
I will let you know the result in a few weeks :)
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Moderator
 United States
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Please post the grade to this thread, and you can do "Report Post" to that post or the first post to have the moderators add "(grade revealed )" to the title.  |
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New Member
Norway
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And the result is.... MS-60 :-)
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Posted 05/20/2015 2:36 pm
